Movie City Indie Archive for November, 2017

Craft Summit 2017: The Art of Editing with Walter Murch (58 min)

19 For Your Consideration Screenplays Await

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Battle of the Sexes, written by Simon Beaufoy

Beauty and the Beast, screenplay by Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos; based on 1991 animated film written by Linda Woolvert

The Beguiled, Written by Sofia Coppola, based on the novel by Thomas Cullinan

The Big Sick, Written by Kumail Nanjiani & Emily V. Gordon

Brad’s Status, Written by Mike White

Breathe, Written by William Nicholson

First They Killed My Father, Screenplay by Loung Ung & Angelina Jolie; Based on the Book “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers” by Loung Ung

Guardians of the Galaxy V. 2. Written by James Gunn.

I, Tonya, Written by Steven Rogers

Last Flag Flying, by Richard Linklater & Darryl Ponicsan

Logan, Story by James Mangold. Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green

The Lost City of Z, Screenplay by James Gray; Based on the Book by David Grann

The Man Who Invented Christmas, Screenplay by Susan Coyne; Based on the Book by Les Standiford

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), Written by Noah Baumbach

mother!, Written by Darren Aronofsky

Mudbound, Screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees; Based on the Novel by Hillary Jordan

Okja, Written by Bong Joon Ho and Jon Ronson

The Shape of Water, Written by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor [withdrawn]

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Written by Martin McDonagh

Wonderstruck, Written by Brian Selznick

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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher

“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.

~ David Simon